Vivarium
If you know anything at all about the behavior of a certain bird species and/or Irish mythology then this movie's story was very heavily foreshadowed or possibly even spoiled in the first 15-30 seconds. The film might be considered an extended metaphor about the pointlessness of modern suburban life but I thought it worked much better as a modern day Twilight Zone episode. It probably ran on a little longer than necessary. Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots are a gardener and school teacher couple who find themselves in a situation that is unexplainable. It starts with them getting lost. Their day goes downhill from there.

Any more plot description would venture into spoiler territory so let's just leave it at that. This movie isn't quite as intelligent as it imagines itself to be but I appreciated that despite the plot being somewhat predictable the film had the courage to not explain every little thing or force the expected ending. This film was low on special effects or gore but high on creepiness/weirdness. This is something that were it a book, could have been written by Bradbury, King or Lovecraft.


"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungleā€”as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.